ADOS test

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I'm 100% sure that I have AS, but my pyschiatrist wants to do the ADOS test before I'm 18. He's told me it'll be a lot of questions and it'll be filmed, but I've searched the internet and there's not much information on the details. What kind of things will I be asked? I'm just really scared and I hate that no one believes me when I say how I feel. I also find it really difficult to get out the right words to explain what's going on in my head.

Could you perhaps tell me what happened with you if you've had the ADOS test, preferably if you were teenaged or adult? I know it's very different for small children.

Thank you so much (:

A lot of tasks involved imagination/improvisation so it's not ideal if you get too much information beforehand as this could affect your results.

I had questions about feelings such as "how does happiness feel?", "what makes you angry?".
A task that involved making a larger shape out of smaller bricks.
Telling a story from a book that only had pictures.
Selecting 5 items from a bag and making a story about them.
Reading some short stories and then rating how strange you thought the person in the story acted.

I can't remember anything else, sorry. Good luck with your assessment. I didn't find it as scary as I thought it was going to be!

I thought happiness was the feeling? To me that would be like describing the color red. I'd be "Well it's kind of... well... red?"

Well, yes, but they want you to explain HOW happiness feels internally and explain what behaviors you exhibit during that emotion. Like, when I'm happy about special interests, I get all bubbly and excited inside, all revved up, and I smile a lot. Happiness is a pleasant state, because it FEELS pleasant inside. That's why anger and anxiety are so hard to deal with- they make you feel different types of tension and pressure, which is awful.

Hmm, that's interesting. I'm not sure how I'd describe how a feeling makes me "feel"

I mean, maybe I'm wrong in what the "proper" answer is (I have never seen my ADOS scores, as I took the ADOS twice, both for research studies), but I interpret it literally. How does it feel? Meaning what do you physically feel inside? I'm sure that my interpretation is a result of hearing the various models and experiments in psychology that have tried to decipher both the physical and cognitive symptoms of emotion. That and the fact that I experience emotions very intensely and have had very severe anxiety all of my life, so it is impossible for me to NOT know that emotions create sensations inside me.

You're probably right, I have lots of emotions just never thought about how they make me feel physically before.

I tried asking a little while ago, didn't get much info on the topic, sorry.
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt200655.html

If you search for ADOS on WrongPlanet, you'll find a few threads over the past two years that discuss it. LittleLily613 went into some detail about the questions she was asked. If I can recall from memory, they were:

Describe an emotion
Tell a story about pictures in a book. The pictures were apparently of frogs and had times of day.
Use various objects to tell a story. Like a shoestring, a toy, a match stick, etc. I forget the exact objects in her case (except maybe the shoestring).
Answer questions that test theory of mind

I forget what else.

Thanks guys!

I had the ADOS over a month ago and it was basically just what was posted here. Pretty nerve-racking but I got through it.

Now I'm panicking about getting the results next Thursday. I don't understand why the doctor won't just diagnose me. I'm 100% sure that I have AS and he just can't see it. Argh.

But thanks again, it made me feel better going in!